"It's very likely these routes will play out for us," said Barger, who was in town to deliver the keynote address at the Greater Fort Lauderdale Alliance Annual Meeting and Dinner event at Signature Grand.

JetBlue has been bullishly adding new routes from the airport in the past two years. This summer it began new service from Fort Lauderrdale to Medellin, Colombia and San Jose, Costa Rica, Next month, it'll begin flying to Worchester, Mass. and Lima, Peru, and in December to Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The carrier also announced plans for new service to Port of Spain, Trinidad next May.

Among its plans to continue growing at the Fort Lauderdale include the addition of a maintenance base to service its aircraft.

Talks are presently afoot with airport officials to identify possible locations for a hangar, Barger said.

The New York-based value carrier is the No.1 carrier at the Fort Lauderdale airport this year through August with 18.7 percent of passenger traffic ahead of Spirit Airlines' 17.6 percent, according to the latest airport data.

JetBlue Airways plans to add a second daily nonstop flight between Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport and San Francisco International Airport on May 21, the New York-based carrier announced recently.

Publix, still the No. 1 grocery chain in Florida by market share, continued its consistent growth by racking up $30.6 billion in revenues in 2014, a 5.7 percent increase from its $28.9 billion of 2013.